There has been a long-standing controversy about whether or not the first people to arrive in Australia more than 60,000 years ago were responsible for, or contributed through hunting to, the ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors. Subscribe to ...

A recent excavation in Texas yielded some “colossal creatures,” according to local officials – and archaeologists are hopeful more will be uncovered soon. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT ...

"The art of tracking may well be the origin of science." This is the departure point for a 2013 book by Louis Liebenberg, co-founder of an organization devoted to environmental monitoring. The demise ...

Introducing large herbivores in Panama’s forests could fill the gap left by extinct species, new research suggests. A team from the University of Exeter say their findings can provide a “baseline” for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney palaeontologists challenges the idea that indigenous Australians hunted Australia’s megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors. Renowned ...

Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large, ...

Many large herbivores that once roamed modern-day Panama have declined or died out—including the 6-meter-long giant ground sloth and elephant-related creatures called Cuvieronius. New research ...